joelgrus
@joelgrus.bsky.social
you know what I blame this on the breakdown of? society
buy the strongest, most expensive kitchen trash bags you can
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
buy the strongest, most expensive kitchen trash bags you can
"only a few thousand people read 'Manna' but every one of them started an AI safety nonprofit"
January 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"only a few thousand people read 'Manna' but every one of them started an AI safety nonprofit"
my favorite theory about the coordinated "28th amendment" blitz is that it's primarily targeted at the LLMs
January 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
my favorite theory about the coordinated "28th amendment" blitz is that it's primarily targeted at the LLMs
"Shut off these machines or I'll shut them off for you"
January 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"Shut off these machines or I'll shut them off for you"
people always joke about "invert a binary tree" as a bad interview question
yesterday I learned that just means "flip left and right"
I always assumed it meant something like "grab a leaf node, 'pull' it to the top, let the other nodes 'fall', and calculate where they end up"
yesterday I learned that just means "flip left and right"
I always assumed it meant something like "grab a leaf node, 'pull' it to the top, let the other nodes 'fall', and calculate where they end up"
January 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
people always joke about "invert a binary tree" as a bad interview question
yesterday I learned that just means "flip left and right"
I always assumed it meant something like "grab a leaf node, 'pull' it to the top, let the other nodes 'fall', and calculate where they end up"
yesterday I learned that just means "flip left and right"
I always assumed it meant something like "grab a leaf node, 'pull' it to the top, let the other nodes 'fall', and calculate where they end up"
thinking about hiring some fact checkers on the cheap
January 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
thinking about hiring some fact checkers on the cheap
Reposted by joelgrus
It was awesome being on with Tim. Talked about how we use AI to build our company, Parakeet.
I interview the one and only @jowanza.bsky.social about how he’s building a startup at lightning speed using Cursor
tdhopper.com/blog/buildin...
tdhopper.com/blog/buildin...
Building a Startup with AI with Jowanza Joseph
Jowanza Joseph shares how his startup leverages AI tools like Cursor to accelerate software development and compete with established players.
tdhopper.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
It was awesome being on with Tim. Talked about how we use AI to build our company, Parakeet.
the reason I originally "learned" python ~20 years ago is that I was taking a "probability modeling" class whose assignments were in matlab, and the site license for matlab only allowed on-campus use, and I lived off-campus
It’s immoral and silly to force students to use vendor software for basic stats and econometrics. R and Python are both free with excellent LLM support.
100% agree. We switched all our econometrics courses to R and it works very well. It's free and the AI support for R is excellent, which is a big plus.
December 15, 2024 at 7:05 PM
the reason I originally "learned" python ~20 years ago is that I was taking a "probability modeling" class whose assignments were in matlab, and the site license for matlab only allowed on-campus use, and I lived off-campus
btw ~20 years ago I talked to a graduate program director (I won't say what college or program) who told me explicitly that their assumption was that all GRE scores from China were fake/cheated and that that factored into their admissions process
December 14, 2024 at 5:33 PM
btw ~20 years ago I talked to a graduate program director (I won't say what college or program) who told me explicitly that their assumption was that all GRE scores from China were fake/cheated and that that factored into their admissions process
NOTE: Most Jupyter notebook users I know are honest and morally upright
December 14, 2024 at 5:31 PM
NOTE: Most Jupyter notebook users I know are honest and morally upright
OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
"How Our Messed-Up Computational-Notebook Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump"
GUEST ESSAY
"How Our Messed-Up Computational-Notebook Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump"
December 1, 2024 at 4:09 PM
OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
"How Our Messed-Up Computational-Notebook Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump"
GUEST ESSAY
"How Our Messed-Up Computational-Notebook Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump"
"give me 2 million bleets and a model to finetune, and I shall change the world"
November 29, 2024 at 12:45 PM
"give me 2 million bleets and a model to finetune, and I shall change the world"
the whole internet loves bluesky app, the app that's just like twitter but with more joy and less toxicity. *5 seconds later*
November 29, 2024 at 6:40 AM
the whole internet loves bluesky app, the app that's just like twitter but with more joy and less toxicity. *5 seconds later*
Bluesky is now an open capital entity. All members are recommended to publish a notice like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you will be tacitly allowing the use of elements such as your photos as well as the information contained in your profile status updates.
November 28, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Bluesky is now an open capital entity. All members are recommended to publish a notice like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you will be tacitly allowing the use of elements such as your photos as well as the information contained in your profile status updates.
Reposted by joelgrus
Hugging Face put up a similar dataset (only 1 million rows), but they unfortunately removed it :(
This is an attempt to undo that injustice, and provide double the amount of data. The data gathering process is fully legal, as per the Bluesky Terms & Service.
huggingface.co/datasets/alp...
This is an attempt to undo that injustice, and provide double the amount of data. The data gathering process is fully legal, as per the Bluesky Terms & Service.
huggingface.co/datasets/alp...
alpindale/two-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Hugging Face put up a similar dataset (only 1 million rows), but they unfortunately removed it :(
This is an attempt to undo that injustice, and provide double the amount of data. The data gathering process is fully legal, as per the Bluesky Terms & Service.
huggingface.co/datasets/alp...
This is an attempt to undo that injustice, and provide double the amount of data. The data gathering process is fully legal, as per the Bluesky Terms & Service.
huggingface.co/datasets/alp...
AI-hating commenters all like
November 27, 2024 at 9:55 AM
AI-hating commenters all like
I saw a conversation where someone was ranting about "Elmo" and I couldn't figure out what the hell they were talking about until I realized that that was their diminutive name for Elon Musk for some reason
you don’t have to call it “the other website”! it’s twitter! it’s x!
you don’t need to censor yourself here because none of the dominant algos will censor you
why this strange refusal to call things by their name
“the orange man” hello)????
you don’t need to censor yourself here because none of the dominant algos will censor you
why this strange refusal to call things by their name
“the orange man” hello)????
November 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I saw a conversation where someone was ranting about "Elmo" and I couldn't figure out what the hell they were talking about until I realized that that was their diminutive name for Elon Musk for some reason
on my drive home today, in my neighborhood, I saw a couple of elementary school boys (3rd grade maybe?) who stopped on the side of the road and I think were doing the Trump dance
November 20, 2024 at 9:59 PM
on my drive home today, in my neighborhood, I saw a couple of elementary school boys (3rd grade maybe?) who stopped on the side of the road and I think were doing the Trump dance
Bluesky feels like I took a time machine back to 2014 when I was still like "Hey let's just talk about data science all the time"
Bluesky feels like I took a Time Machine back to 2009 when I was still like “Hey this social media thing is going to make the world a better place.”
November 19, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Bluesky feels like I took a time machine back to 2014 when I was still like "Hey let's just talk about data science all the time"
at my previous job every time my coworker used `reduce` in a PR I insisted that he change it
I regret nothing
I regret nothing
Part of maturing as an engineer is recognizing the difference between "thing you would do differently" and "thing you should comment on during code review"
November 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
at my previous job every time my coworker used `reduce` in a PR I insisted that he change it
I regret nothing
I regret nothing
I hope this place doesn't get toxic like twitter
also, let me know if you're one of my twitter people so I can recreate the exact same feed over here
also, let me know if you're one of my twitter people so I can recreate the exact same feed over here
November 17, 2024 at 12:50 AM
I hope this place doesn't get toxic like twitter
also, let me know if you're one of my twitter people so I can recreate the exact same feed over here
also, let me know if you're one of my twitter people so I can recreate the exact same feed over here
a lot of people are following me all of the sudden
I'm trying to block the ones that I know to be wicked, but it's possible I missed a few, so bear with me
I'm trying to block the ones that I know to be wicked, but it's possible I missed a few, so bear with me
November 16, 2024 at 10:54 PM
a lot of people are following me all of the sudden
I'm trying to block the ones that I know to be wicked, but it's possible I missed a few, so bear with me
I'm trying to block the ones that I know to be wicked, but it's possible I missed a few, so bear with me
apparently my 8th graders teacher told her that the STAAR essays are going to be graded by an AI and that they can practice by writing essays and asking ChatGPT to grade them 🙃
November 15, 2024 at 3:54 AM
apparently my 8th graders teacher told her that the STAAR essays are going to be graded by an AI and that they can practice by writing essays and asking ChatGPT to grade them 🙃